Some women may be unaware of their male partner’s risk factors for HIV infection (such as unprotected sex with multiple partners, sex with men, or injection drug use) [8].

Women who use crack cocaine or other noninjection drugs may also be at high risk for the sexual transmission of HIV if they sell or trade sex for drugs [18].

For example, in the North Carolina study of HIV infection in fl women, the participants most commonly reported that that their reasons for risky behavior were financial dependence on male partners, feeling invincible, low self-esteem coupled with the need to feel loved by a male figure, and alcohol and drug use [22].

Some women can have abnormal hormonal or chromosomal differences (such as congenital adrenal hyperplasia, complete or partial androgen insensitivity syndrome or other intersex conditions), and there are women who may be without, at least for an earlier part of their lives, typical female physiology (trans, transgendered or transsexualwomen).

For poorer women, especially among the working classes, this often remained an ideal, for economic necessity has long compelled them to seek employment outside the home, although the occupations traditionally open to working-classwomen were lower in prestige and pay than those open to men.

The women's movement is in part a struggle for the recognition of equality of opportunity with men, and for equal rights irrespective of sex, even if special relations and conditions are willingly incurred under the form of partnership involved in marriage.

Women's infidelity is not only frowned upon but actually criminalized in certain places, whilst men's extramarital sexual relationships and use of femalesex workers are seen as being almost acceptable, or to be expected.

Women as bearers of and carers for children are crucial to social and family structure.

Women in developing countries may want a microbicide that prevents HIV infection but which allows pregnancy to occur, whilst other women may want to be protected against both HIV infection and pregnancy.

Women were long considered naturally weaker than men, squeamish, and unable to perform work requiring muscular or intellectual development.

Higher education particularly was broadened by the rise of women's colleges and the admission of women to regular colleges and universities.

Women in the United States during the 19th century organized and participated in a great variety of reform movements to improve education, to initiate prison reform, to ban alcoholic drinks, and, during the pre-Civil War period, to free the slaves.

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Regularly monitor VA briefings during Transition Assistance Programs to ensure that active duty women are provided access to information on the benefits and services available to them as veterans prior to their release from active duty.

Provide women veteran consumers the opportunity to share their concerns and issues with VA managers through town hall meetings, community forums and gatherings, and regional/national summits.

Continue to outreach to the women veterans' community with increased emphasis on outreach to the elderly, minority and those living in rural areas.

Women's empowerment and well-being are the pillars of sustainable cities...

This report examines the discrimination and disempowerment women face throughout their lives and outlines what must be done to eliminate gender discrimination and empower women and girls.

The first virtual network linking women in politics throughout the world was launched on 27 February 2007 at the United Nations: the International Knowledge Network of Women in Politics (iKNOW Politics), with UNIFEM and UNDP as partners.

What seems to happen within the first few centuries is that whatever limited activities women might have had in the beginning begin to get curtailed as you have the development of a hierarchy of clergy members with bishops, presbyters and deacons, and it's pretty firmly established that women should not be either bishops or priests.

The fact that some young women and men wanted, on the basis of hearing these injunctions to sexualchastity, to abandon societal life, not to marry, not to have children as their parents probably wanted them to, [is] certainly depicted in early Christian writings as causing a problem.

You can see why churchmen liked women like this and why it was very important for the charity operations of the church, which were now feeding hundreds, indeed thousands, of poor people, orphans, widows; hospitals needed to be built that Christians were organizing.

From the formal paintings on tombs, the Egyptian stereotype of a woman was that of wife and mother, the husband being the head of the household.

When women were in a sculpture, she was usually part of a husband-and-wife or family group, with the wife physically supporting her husband with an arm around his shoulder.

Women with talent could enter jobs in the music (which has links to sexuality), weaving or mourning (the women hired to grieve at funerals) industries, while those well connected women could get professional positions such as domestic supervisors or domestic administrators.

Millions of women throughout the world live in conditions of abject deprivation of, and attacks against, their fundamental human rights for no other reason than that they are women.

Women are unable to depend on the government to protect them from physical violence in the home, with sometimes fatal consequences, including increased risk of HIV/AIDS infection.

Women are punished for having sex outside of marriage or with a person of their choosing (rather than of their family's choosing).

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Stress due to psychosocial factors, such as multiple roles in the home and at work and the increased likelihood of women to be poor, at risk for violence and abuse, and raising children alone, also plays a role in the development of depression.

Women with susceptibility to depression may be more vulnerable to the mood-shifting effects of hormones.

Since women in general are at greater risk for depression than men, female caregivers of people with AD may be particularly vulnerable to depression.

Launched by UNAIDS in early 2004, the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS works at global and national levels to highlight the effects of AIDS on women and girls and to stimu­late concrete and effective action to prevent the spread of HIV.

Women are leaders in many areas of the AIDS response but too often interventions are not adapted to their realities leaving them at greater risk of HIV infection and at a disadvantage when it comes to coping with AIDS.

Many women who are infected or at risk of becoming infected do not practise high-risk behaviours but are frequently married or in a monogamous relationship.

Women in Transition — The “Women in Transition” Scholarship was established in 1990 to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Educational Foundation.

Student loan repayment grants are available to women who volunteer their professional talents for an average of 8 hours a month, for a period of time to be determined by the amount of their student loan debt.

The award is for women who have completed at least one year of graduate study in an area of science or engineering which is closely related to advanced studies in the aerospace-related sciences.

WOMEN in a stable relationship who go back to work after having a child enjoy better health in the long term - and for the first time scientists think they can show that working improves health, not the other way around.

Women looking for a long-term relationship like men who like children — and they can tell which guys might be interested in becoming fathers just by looking at their faces.

Iran's women will be barred from attending soccer games, a reversal by the president that comes a month before the national team plays in the World Cup.

There were women officers and enisted women; there were youngsters in their early twenties with barely two years in service and career women over forty.

Women suffered the same hardships as the men in many cases and were often in the line of fire from rockets and mortars, particularly during the Tet offensive with the Viet Cong attacks on Saigon.

Yet women were there - they sloshed through the same mud and blood as the men, witnessed the same horrors of war, and suffered the same ignominous treatment and indignities upon their return to the country that sent them there.

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With all those hormones rushing through her body it is no wonder that this preggo blonde babe is horny as hell.

It is the only degree-granting womens studies program in an historically fl college or university and the only womens studies program in the United States which offers the doctoral degree in the comparative study of Africana women.

The Polyclinic of Hope is a centre for women survivors of gender-based violence during the genocide.